November 9, 2007 11:39 am

Just got to Kirkland for Friday’s practice. Today ought to be interesting because some of the 10 injured Seahawks will probably be declared out for Monday night’s game if they haven’t shown enough improvement by now.

That’s a large number of wounded, even for this point in the season. And, even more, six of those players – Shaun Alexander, Deion Branch, Marcus Pollard on offense and Patrick Kerney, Leroy Hill and Rocky Bernard on defense – are starters.

We’ll update you on who’s practicing, who’s not and what coach Mike Holmgren has to say. I would be surprised if Alexander goes today, which would likely mean he wouldn’t play on Monday.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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